TIL that Frances Perkins was the first female cabinet member in U.S. history. She was appointed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt as the Secretary of Labor in 1933. Her appointment was a significant milestone for women in government and she played a crucial role in shaping New Deal policies.
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Frances Perkins
Workers-rights advocate and United States Secretary of Labor 1933–1945
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TIL Lake Baikal contains 22–23% of the world's fresh surface water (more than all of the North American Great Lakes combined)
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Lake Baikal
freshwater rift lake in southern Siberia, Russia
TIL an Australian soldier named Herbert James "Ringer" Edwards survived being crucified for 63 hours by Japanese soldiers during World War 2.
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Submitted September 15, 2024 at 09:26PM by SuperRedSpace
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Ringer Edwards
Australian prisoner of war
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TIL: Chedipe is a vulgar, undressed, Indian witch vampire who rides on a tiger at night, casts a spell to enter your home, and then sucks men's blood through their toes. Sometimes, if the man is married, she sleeps with him in order to cause marital strife as she feeds off pain and sadness.
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Chedipe
witch-vampire in the folklore around the Godavari River in India
TIL a corpse discovered in Denmark in 1950 was so well-preserved it appeared to be a recent murder, but was later found to be 2,400 years old.
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Submitted September 15, 2024 at 10:28PM by CreditorOP
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Tollund Man
Iron Age bog body from Denmark that was hanged before death
TIL the fastest spinning celestial object in the universe is a Neutron star called PSR J1748-2446. It rotates 716 times every second and it's equator moves at about 25% the speed of light. It is also has a magnetic field a trillion times stronger than the Sun’s.
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Astronomy Magazine
Weird Object: Neutron Star PSR J1748-2446 | Astronomy.com
The pulsar PSR J1748-2446 is the universe's fastest-spinning object and the most extreme example of a neutron star known.
TIL that between August 1960 and April 1961, the CIA, with the help of the Mafia, pursued a series of plots to poison or shoot Fidel Castro.
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Submitted September 16, 2024 at 12:52AM by Voyager_AU
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American Mafia
highly organized Italian-American criminal society
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TIL after his journey from Japan in 1614, English sailor John Saris returned home with 'Japanese erotic art'. The incident ended his career as a merchant.
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Submitted September 16, 2024 at 03:32AM by a9n9a
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John Saris
British sailor
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TIL that although Italian American actor Al Pacino's character was Cuban in Scarface (1983), the character in the original 1932 film was an Italian American.
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Submitted September 16, 2024 at 02:37AM by PunnyBanana
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Scarface (1932 film)
1932 American gangster film
TIL that the ancient Chinese used lead as a stimulate and a contraceptive.
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Submitted September 16, 2024 at 02:35AM by Voyager_AU
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Lead
Lead is a chemical element; it has symbol Pb (from Latin plumbum) and atomic number 82. It is a heavy metal that is denser than most common materials. Lead is soft and malleable, and also has a relatively low melting point. When freshly cut, lead is a shiny…
TIL physicist Ludwig Boltzmann also taught philosophy and his lectures on the subject became so popular that the Austrian Emperor invited him for a reception. He suffered from bipolar disorder and died by suicide at 62. His tombstone bears the innoscription of his own entropy formula: S = k*log W.
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Ludwig Boltzmann
Austrian physicist and philosopher (1844–1906)
TIL Jim Carey spoke to someone who trained operatives at the CIA who was an expert on resisting torture since Carey was forced to sit in makeup chairs for hours everyday while they applied the Grinch makeup and prosthetics on him for the movie.
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Jim Carrey tells of make-up ‘torture’ during The Grinch
Hollywood star Jim Carrey has told how he was given training from an expert who advised the CIA on dealing with torture as he coped with a gruelling make-up regime in one of his movies.
The star had to endure a “horrendous” daily ordeal lasting...
The star had to endure a “horrendous” daily ordeal lasting...
TIL That a medieval list of appropriate dog names, compiled around 1460 and named "The Names of All Manner of Hounds", contained fan favorites such as: Nosewise, Hosewife, Spowse, Baby, Childe, Mistirman, Go-bifore, Go-byhynde, Havegoodday, Bere-awey, Salmon, Dragon, Flame and... Nameles!
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Tudor Treasures & Medieval Musings
MEDIEVAL DOG NAMES - Tudor Treasures & Medieval Musings
Deciding on a name for your new dog can be a challenge at times; one medieval duke clearly thought so when he compiled a list of some 1065 appropriate names for dogs in his manual on game and hunting. Edward, Duke of York (grand-uncle of Edward IV and Richard…
TIL Texas didn’t have safety regulations on natural gas until after a school blew up and killed hundreds of children. Nobody was held accountable, but they passed strict regulations afterwards. It was so bad that even Hitler sent a letter of condolence.
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New London School explosion
The New London School explosion occurred on March 18, 1937, when a natural gas leak caused an explosion and destroyed the London School in New London, Texas, United States. The disaster killed more than 300 students and teachers. As of 2021[update], the event…
TIL that at atmospheric pressure, Helium cannot freeze, even at Absolute Zero, while Carbon and Arsenic sublimates from solid to gas, with no liquid state.
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Submitted September 16, 2024 at 02:09AM by Dromeoraptor
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Melting point
The melting point (or, rarely, liquefaction point) of a substance is the temperature at which it changes state from solid to liquid. At the melting point the solid and liquid phase exist in equilibrium. The melting point of a substance depends on pressure…
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TIL about Arthur Arndt, a German physician whose family became the largest known group of Jews to survive by hiding in Nazi Germany.
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Submitted September 16, 2024 at 10:40AM by CreditorOP
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Arthur Arndt
German physician who survived hiding out with his family during The Holocaust
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TIL: Foetal cells can remain in the mother's, even embedding on different organs of the mother, for decades, sometimes for a lifetime.
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Baby’s Cells Can Manipulate Mom’s Body for Decades
An evolutionary approach may help scientists understand why mothers become genetic chimeras and how that affects their health
TIL the first recorded strike in history happened in 1158BC in Ancient Egypt, the strikers demanded wheat rations, which was granted after a march to the office of the Vizier.
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Submitted September 16, 2024 at 01:27PM by knakworst36
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Deir el-Medina strikes
ancient Egyptian strike
TIL when you're stretching your body releases endorphins, that's why it feels so good.
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Submitted September 16, 2024 at 03:43PM by Dog_Weasley
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TIL the Harvard professor on administrative leave over falsified research data, Francesca Gino, published a book with the subnoscript, "Why It Pays to Break the Rules at Work and In Life"
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Submitted September 16, 2024 at 05:02PM by sunlightFTW
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TIL that Henryk Siwiak was killed on a street of Brooklyn shortly before midnight. He is the only victim on the list of murders in New York on September 11, 2001, since the city does not include the deaths from the 9/11 attacks in its official crime statistics. His murder has never been solved.
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Submitted September 16, 2024 at 05:54PM by jenesuispashariselon
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Killing of Henryk Siwiak
only homicide officially recorded in New York City on September 11, 2001